Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother. Melanie Klein More Quotes by Melanie Klein More Quotes From Melanie Klein One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults. Melanie Klein adultschildreninteresting God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey. Melanie Klein journeyheartmotivational The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase. Melanie Klein creativityrootsneeds Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering. Melanie Klein childrenrealityyears The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied. Melanie Klein ambitiousambitionbaby Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it. Melanie Klein yogaselfmind My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development. Melanie Klein hatemindbaby It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature. Melanie Klein characteristicsemotionpowerful the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct. Melanie Klein instinctanxietylife-and-death It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other. Melanie Klein anxietyhatredhands
